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Mar 4
2016A team of UCSB postdocs and graduate students in the Begley Lab provided the cover of the December issue of Extreme Mechanics Letters. Their work "Acoustic field controlled patterning and assembly of anisotropic particles", explores highly-organized particle assembly at the microscale and carries transformative implications for fields ranging from medical diagnostics to... read more » -
Feb 26
2016Professor Emeritus Robert Odette has been elected to the 2016 Class of Fellows of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS). The Fellow Award is conferred on members for their outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy, materials science, and technology, and is the highest honor given by the society. The citation for election was for Prof. Odette’s "... read more » -
Feb 10
2016Mechanical Engineering is happy to announce that Professor Igor Mezic has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Members of the APS are elected to Fellowship for their exceptional contributions to the field of physics and its enterprise. Professor Mezic's research focuses on an operator-theoretic approach to analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems,... read more » -
Jan 8
2016Professor Emeritus Robert Odette Awarded 2015 TMS Structural Materials Division JOM Best Paper AwardProfessor Emeritus Robert Odette has been awarded the 2015 TMS Structural Materials Division Best Paper Award for his paper titled "Recent Progress in Developing and Qualifying Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys for Advanced Fission and Fusion Applications". This award recognizes the most notable paper published on structural materials in the Journal of Materials... read more » -
Dec 13
2015Professor Francesco Bullo delivered a plenary presentation at the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held at the Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan. The talk, delivered on Wednesday December 13th, was entitled “Network Systems in Science and Technology”. For further information on the conference and Prof. Bullo’s plenary presentation please... read more » -
Oct 30
2015Research by Professor Jeff Moehlis and his graduate student Dan Wilson was recently featured on SIAM News: "The traditional boundaries between engineering and the life sciences are rapidly blurring as interdisciplinary researchers explore fundamental and practical questions in biology and medicine. A particularly fruitful avenue for such explorations uses classical phase... read more » -
May 27
2015Photo Credit: George Foulsham Mechanical Engineering Professor Igor Mezic, Project Scientist Sophie Loire, and Undergraduate Patrick Clary are three in a large group of UCSB scientists, researchers and engineers who have responded to the oil spill by pooling their considerable expertise. Working often in collaboration with one another, they are gathering... read more » -
Apr 28
2015Professor Francesco Bullo was one of three recipients of the 2015 UCSB Outstanding Graduate Mentorship Awards. The awards were presented at a ceremony during the April 23rd Academic Senate Faculty Legislature Meeting. Professor Bullo, also Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has had an incredibly strong track record in the mentorship and guidance of many... read more » -
Apr 27
2015Mechanical Engineering Professor Megan Valentine has been chosen to receive a Fulbright Scholar Award. The highly sought award will enable her to conduct engineering research at premier engineering institute ESPCI Paris Tech in France during the Fall 2015 quarter. Working with Professor Costantino Creton, Prof. Valentine will be working to capture the strength, toughness... read more » -
Apr 16
2015Asistant Professor Otger Campas and colleague Jerome Gros from the Institute Pasteur, Paris, have been awarded the prestigious international 2015 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Award for their work on “Mechanical control of progenitor cell renewal and differentiation during vertebrate limb formation.” The award grants $250,000 for the next three... read more » -
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Sep 4
2014ME PhD student John Simpson-Porco and Professor Francesco Bullo win 2014 Automatica Best Paper AwardProfessor Francesco Bullo's article on "Synchronization and Power Sharing for Droop-Controlled Inverters in Islanded Microgrids" wins the 2014 IFAC Automatica Best Paper Award in the category "Best Application Paper 2011-2014". The paper's co-authors are John W. Simpson-Porco (current ME PhD student) and Florian Dorfler (ME PhD '13, now Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich... read more » -
Aug 28
2014Mechanical Engineering Professor Brad Paden has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Paden is recognized for his contributions in control theory including nonsmooth stability theory, inversion of nonlinear systems, and control of robot manipulators. He has also led major design projects including the mechatronic design of left... read more » -
Jul 9
2014The Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship program was established in 1995 by Warren and Patricia Hellman. The purpose of the Hellman Fellows program is to provide substantial support for the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. It is designed to particularly target faculty near the middle of their pre-tenure... read more » -
Jul 9
2014Robert McMeeking, professor of mechanical engineering and also of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Timoshenko Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It is the highest applied mechanics honor the society bestows. McMeeking was recognized for his “pioneering contributions to broad areas of applied mechanics including nonlinear fracture... read more » -
Jul 9
2014The Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research is made annually by the College of Engineering in honor of Matthew Tirrell, former Dean of the College, to recognize graduating seniors who have shown excellence and promise as a researcher during their academic career. This year’s award recipient is Bethany Letierre. Bethany is a mechanical engineering major who... read more » -
Mar 7
2014From the Royal Society of Edinburgh Website: "A distinguished engineer and engineering educator, Robert McMeeking has made highly significant contributions in research regarding computational mechanics, the characterization of advanced structural and functional materials, including fracture and deformation of ceramics, composite materials, ferroelectrics, the mechanics of... read more » -
Jan 24
2014UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Robert McMeeking has been awarded the 2014 William Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science (SES). The award recognizes “outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental solid mechanics or both.” McMeeking is cited for “for contributions underpinning finite deformation computational mechanics and... read more » -
Dec 13
2013A method of assessing the stability of large-scale power grids in real time could bring the world closer to its goal of producing and utilizing a smart grid. The algorithmic approach, developed by UC Santa Barbara professor Igor Mezic along with Yoshihiko Susuki from Kyoto University, can predict future massive instabilities in the power grid and make power outages a... read more » -
Dec 10
2013Like tiny construction workers, cells sculpt embryonic tissues and organs in 3D space. This task is complicated and requires constant communication between cells to coordinate their actions and generate the forces that will shape their environment into complex tissue morphologies. Biologists have long studied the communication between cells and their behavior while... read more » -
Oct 7
2013Mechanical Engineering Professor G. Robert Odette has been named as a recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award given by the Structural Materials Division of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS). The award and Prof. Odette's biography will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of JOM, the principle TMS journal. -
Sep 19
2013Research performed by Mechanical Engineering Professor Igor Mezic was recently selected for inclusion in a special 60th anniversary edition of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research magazine. AFOSR: Turning Scientific Discovery Into Air Force Opportunity - Celebrating 60 Years of Air Force Basic Research 1951 - Present highlights AFOSR funded projects with the most... read more » -
Aug 5
2013Mechanical Engineering Professor Eckart Meiburg has been elected as a Fellow of ASME. Professor Meiburg was conferred this honor “for outstanding leadership and contributions in the area of fluid mechanics, in particular in the areas of vortex dynamics, wake flows, multiphase flows, turbidity currents and the physics of a variety of hydrodynamic instabilities.” The ASME... read more » -
Jul 31
2013Prof. Bassam Bamieh's article, coauthored with M.R. Jovanović, P. Mitra, and S. Patterson, entitled "Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback'' has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. This award is the most prestigious best paper award in the discipline of control science, given... read more »
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